Upcoming Concerts & Events
Eccles' Semele
Tuesday 26 November at 8pm - Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge
Academy of Ancient Music & Cambridge Handel Opera Company singers
Academy of Ancient Music & Cambridge Handel Opera Company singers
Cambridge Handel Opera Company, Cambridge Early Music and Academy of Ancient Music join forces for the first time for a rare concert performance of John Eccles' Semele.
Semele is a lively retelling of the story of Jupiter’s pursuit of the Theban princess. Juno plots her downfall by persuading her to insist on seeing him in his divine form, whereupon his thunderbolts consume her. Planned for the opening of London’s Italian Opera House, Semele was never performed at the time, and the libretto is best known today from Handel’s later Oratorio.
It is a highly dramatic and effective response to the text in an attractive idiom mixing English and Italian elements and deserves to be better known.
Pre-concert talk at 6.30pm - Michaelhouse Chapel
Professor Peter Holman and Dr Alan Howard presented by Dr Ruth Smith
Semele is a lively retelling of the story of Jupiter’s pursuit of the Theban princess. Juno plots her downfall by persuading her to insist on seeing him in his divine form, whereupon his thunderbolts consume her. Planned for the opening of London’s Italian Opera House, Semele was never performed at the time, and the libretto is best known today from Handel’s later Oratorio.
It is a highly dramatic and effective response to the text in an attractive idiom mixing English and Italian elements and deserves to be better known.
Pre-concert talk at 6.30pm - Michaelhouse Chapel
Professor Peter Holman and Dr Alan Howard presented by Dr Ruth Smith
Gabriel's Message - music for an English Advent
Thursday 12 December at 7.30pm - Emmanuel United Reformed Church, Cambridge
Mediva Ensemble
Mediva Ensemble
The fire crackles and the spiced wine is warmed with carols and estampies from medieval England, celebrating the Angel Gabriel’s visitation to the Virgin Mary. A range of songs and dances from 12th - 15th centuries buried in manuscripts now housed in Cambridge, Oxford and London libraries. All composed by the ever prolific Anonymous. Let the winter festivities begin!
Dates for your diaries
Tuesday 14 April, 7.30pm - Howard Theatre, Downing College
Her Infinite Variety: Women of Shakespeare in Words and Music
Elina Mustonen, virginals and actor
Thursday 7 May, 8.00pm - Trinity College Chapel
Singing in Secret: Music from Recusant Renaissance England
Marian Consort
Saturday 9 May, 8.00pm - Trinity College Chapel
Music from the New World: Mexico and Guatemala
De Profundis, David Skinner conductor
Her Infinite Variety: Women of Shakespeare in Words and Music
Elina Mustonen, virginals and actor
Thursday 7 May, 8.00pm - Trinity College Chapel
Singing in Secret: Music from Recusant Renaissance England
Marian Consort
Saturday 9 May, 8.00pm - Trinity College Chapel
Music from the New World: Mexico and Guatemala
De Profundis, David Skinner conductor
N.B. Bookings via Cambridge Live will close one day before the concert. Tickets will still be available on the door.
The Friends of Cambridge Early Music have joined up with the Hughes Hall Music Society to found Insight, a series of early music events with a difference, taking place in the Pavilion Room, Hughes Hall, Mortimer Road, Cambridge CB1 2EW.
The series resumes in the autumn of 2018 after the renovation of the Pavilion Room.
Tickets are free but booking is essential; please contact friends@cambridgeearlymusic.org or telephone 01223 411762.
Gill Monsell
Chairman, Friends of Cambridge Early Music
The series resumes in the autumn of 2018 after the renovation of the Pavilion Room.
Tickets are free but booking is essential; please contact friends@cambridgeearlymusic.org or telephone 01223 411762.
Gill Monsell
Chairman, Friends of Cambridge Early Music
